PETRU MOVILĂ: FORMATOR AL SISTEMULUI DE ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNT DIN UCRAINA ÎN PERIOADA UNIUNII POLONO-LITUANIENE
PETRU MOVILĂ: FOUNDER OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN UKRAINE DURING THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH

Summary/Abstract: In this work, the activity of the illustrious Metropolitan Petru Movilă, a personality of encyclopedic culture, is analyzed. Certain historical moments in the cultural life of Ukraine are examined, which took place after the dissolution of the great state in Central Europe – Kievan Rus – as well as during the Renaissance and the existence of the new federal state, the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. This union, which ruled not only the territories that are now parts of Poland and Lithuania, but also the entireterritory of Belarus, parts of Ukraine and Latvia, as well as the western Russian lands that today form the Smolensk region, reachedthe height of its power in the first half of the seventeenth century. A special role in supporting the progressive reforms of this periodbelongs to Archbishop Petru Movilă, Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and All Rus’, Exarch of the Holy Apostolic Throne of Constantinople, and Archimandrite of Pechersk (1633–1646). The presence of Petru Movilă on Ukrainian soil at the beginning of the seventeenth century was reflected in positive changes in the educational system and in many areas of culture, including the field of music.The memory of the good and important deeds accomplished by Petru Movilă in Ukraine, and especially in Kyiv, lives ontoday in the country’s history and in the activity of the most authoritative educational institution in Ukraine – the Kyiv MohylaAcademy, founded in the seventeenth century by the tireless metropolitan.

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